Friday, May 15, 2015

Comic Round-Up: May 15, 2015

Event:Liz Climo
is a children’s book author, a comic artist, and an animator for the TV
show The Simpsons — and she is hosting our Storytime! Liz will be
reading and signing her new children’s book Rory the Dinosaur at the Barnes & Noble in San Jose, CA 3:00 pm
on Saturday June 6, 2015.

Event: WriterHeath Corson appears at Phat Collectibles in Anaheim, CA on
Saturday, June 6th at 2:00 pm to sign BIZARRO! You might know Heath from
his writing credits on Justice League: War, Throne of Atlantis, and
Batman: Assault on Arkham. RSVP on Facebook!

Interview:Dustin Harbin discusses the collected edition of Diary Comics,
which debuted last weekend at the Toronto Comic Arts Festival, and the
challenge of deciding what to keep out and what to leave in.

Interview:Jerry Harrington has been buying comics since he was a kid — when he
would cut school to hit the drugstore as the new issues arrived — and he
now has more than 20,000 comics and teaches a course in comics history
at his local community college.

Interview:Noelle Stevenson talks about Nimona and reinventing the female superhero.

Interview:xkcd creator Randall Munroe has a new book in the works, Thing Explainer,
which uses diagrams and a vocabulary of only 1,000 words to explain all
sorts of science and technology: “The diagrams in ‘Thing Explainer’
cover all kinds of neat stuff — including computer buildings (data
centers), the flat rocks we live on (tectonic plates), the stuff you use
to steer a plane (airliner cockpit controls), and the little bags of
water you’re made of (cells).”